Jesse Michaels
Jesse Michaels is best known as singer/songwriter for the ska-punk band Operation Ivy. He has since turned to writing fiction, and this year completed his first novel, What the Dead Have to Say. He reads an excerpt from a short story he wrote about a man who goes on a strange date. This was recorded at Litcrawl's event at Amnesia hosted by Jack Boulware.
What do you think that you bring to the Suicide Prevention table as part
of this year’s Plea for Peace tour?< JM - Well, I think, if anything, we bring to this particular tour, continuity from the previous tours. Plea for Peace tours, for a long time, 646-204 were very, very – they sort of grew out of the whole ska/punk thing, because of Asian Man Records involvement. 70-647 Now, we don’t really stick to that genre, but we have roots in it. Just because of, well, I have been linked with that genre for obvious reasons, and so, in a way, 350-030 we are brining the spirit of the past tours, though we weren’t on them.
